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| Features | 8/10  |
|---|---|
| Value for Money | 10/10 |
| Overall rating | 9/10 |
Full review by
Colin.
on 17th Jul 2001
User Rating : 9
Respect :
+5
Good Points: Very good sound (128kbps mp3). Easy and instant access to literally hundreds of CD's. Parallel port connection for saving artist/album/title info (easier than typing on remote control's keyboard). Use of playlists. Random play, vol, tone, song title display. Compresses CD formats to mp3 format while in sleep mode. Optical/line I/O's. Downloads CD's 6 times faster than real time.
Bad Points: Random play not really random. Remote hard to read unless in medium-strong lighting. Can only do one thing at a time (can't remove a CD while playing from the Hard drive, for example). Blips when reading CD's, but only infrequently (noticed on few CD's).
General comments: The Sima I-mix 100 is a "digital jukebox" and stores up to 8.4Gb of mp3 music on its internal hard drive, good for around 8000 minutes of music playing time. I really like being able to choose any song at the touch of a button from my collection. Very handy because I was able to download a bunch of my brother's CD's and pick only the songs I wanted. The sound quality is very good (128kbps mp3 format), very difficult to tell apart from a CD. These are available commercially for around $400 and the larger model, the I-mix 120 (20Gb hard drive) for ~$550.
I have only two complaints: 1) While the random play mode is a pseudo-random number generator, there is no way to "seed" it with a random event (like the time on a clock), so you get the same "random" sequence every time to turn it on, unless you have added songs. Luckily (?)if you hit the back (
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